Social media marketing, ad management and optimization, diagnosing AdSense revenue drops, the brand ambassador model, are just some of the hot topics included inside this showcase of the best advertising and internet marketing articles published this year here at MasterNewMedia.

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If you want to monetize your blog site, attract potential advertisers, improve your advertising revenues, or deploy efficient market strategies, you can find most of what you need to know right inside this small collection of in-depth guides and reports.

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Best of MasterNewMedia 2008

Rajeev Goel, CEO and Co-founder of Pubmatic, a company that specializes in optimizing ad network serving for web sites has just released an essential guide to ad revenue optimization, after having looked for a long time at what other the opportunity points to be leveraged in the fast-changing ad serving and optimization marketplace.

Christian Ashlock, at theOfficial Google AdSense blog has recently posted a two-part report on this very topic which I found extremely helpful and comprehensive, especially for those who are new and unfamiliar with the online advertising business and specifically with the factors that can affect your AdSense revenues.

The Brand Ambassador is an advertising model that leverages the authority and credibility of online personalities to create a powerful direct marketing strategy. A respected followed authority, a blogger or small publisher targeting a specific audience niche can be a much more effective vehicle for marketing communication that the most expensive advertising campaign.

As passion, integrity and authority are among some of the key selection criteria used, it is with great pride that I can officially announce that MasterNewMedia has become part of the Federated Media Publishing and advertising network.

Banner, leaderboard, skyscraper, small rectangle. Just like for newspapers and print magazines, also on the Web advertisers and publishers have defined over time an official set of "online standard ad formats". Such ad formats represent the full range of visual and text-ad sizes available for use on public web pages.

I am republishing here below the original content from Chris Brogan original Top 100, fully reformatted according to specific advice I have shared in my recent "How To Format Big Lists". Compare the original article with this one and provide feedback in the comment section at the end, of if and where you see significant improvements.

Looking for some cool online marketing tools? Thanks again to my ongoing collaboration with Italian future-looking magazine 7thFloor for which I have been producing a small multi-part content section called "Yellow Pages for explorers and innovators", I am bringing to you the extended and upgraded version of a small collection of useful online marketing tools I have selected for their latest issue.

SMO (social media optimization), originally based on the five key principles Rohit first wrote to increase the visibility of a blog site, grew with time to 17 items, as other social media experts contributed to them by suggesting new ones across new blog posts about social media optimization best practices.

Want to market, promote and monetize your best quality content and find out which are the effective guerrilla marketing actions that could help you the most? In this seven-minute excellent video presentation recorded last November at the nextMEDIA: Monetizing Digital Media event, Will Pate, shares with you some of the very best content marketing advice you can get around.

One of the main steps to become a successful online publisher is to build a strong online identity. The more you establish yourself as a reliable source of information, the more the people will seek you for help and visit your site.